Behind The Panels Issue 130 – Spider-Verse

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 130, the comic book show that needs three more people to unite the seven.

In this issue, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse gets its Nightcrawler, Jim Starlin’s Dredstar comes to TV and Dynamite focuses on female creators and characters. THEN it’s Silk, The Multiversity, Ei8ht, The Flash, Gotham and more in what we’ve been reading and watching. ALSO It’s another geek-related team-building challenge,

PLUS our Kick-Ass Pick of the Week: SPIDER-VERSE, a Marvel Comics event featuring every Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Spider-barnyard animal and Spider-child ever. This is BEHIND THE PANELS.

News Headlines

Kodi Smit-McPhee has been cast as the young Nightcrawler in X-Men: Age of Apocalypse

Jim Starlin’s space opera Dredstar will head to the Universal Cable Network, with Starlin serving as executive producer and writer

The Sculptor, Scott McCloud’s first graphic novel, has been picked up by Sony Pictures and producer Scott Rudin

Titan Comics plans a crossover between the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors in August, ahead of this year’s Doctor Who Comics Day on August 15.

Morena Baccarin will join Fox’s Deadpool as the female lead. Deadpool also adds Gina Carano to its cast, playing a character by the name of Angel Dust

Mark Waid will write Justice Inc: The Avenger, beginning in June for Dynamite

Dynamite has also announced a ‘Swords of Sorrow’ event, crossing over many of their female characters and featuring creators Marguerite Bennett, Leah Moore, Mairghread Scott, G. Willow Wilson and more.

Robert Kirkman’s series Outkast has gotten a series order from Cinemax, and features Patrick Fugit, Philip Glenister and Gabriel Bateman in the cast

After a 3 year break, Stan Sakai’s long-running Usagi Yojimbo is returning to shelves in May.

Fox has ordered a pilot for an adaptation of Vertigo’s Lucifer, with Underworld’s Len Wiseman directing

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